Like any new technologies that successfully get implemented in society, there are the innovators, and the early adopters (champions) that can connect the innovators to the money, development and adoption, below is the cast of characters and how they made the internet happen:
THE INNOVATORS - The Scientists
The "Inventor" first to publish
Paul Baran
in 1960 Invented Packing Switching networks or "the internet"
Who was laughed out of AT&T for not understanding how voice telecommunications work. Textbook case of selling or introducing to late majority adopters, or ludites.
1961/1962 - mathmatical theory of packet networks - MIT
Queing Theory led to packet switching concepts or "the internet"
Leonard Kleinrock
12 years later The fundamental building blocks/concept/heart/ of the Internet - Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol developed and introduced in 1972. by:
Robert Elliot Kahn and Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf - in 1982 also came up with email, and offered the first commercially available email service via MCI.
1977 The Grad Student working with Leonard Kleinrock who did all the work on Hierarchical Routing
Farouk Kamoun
THE KEY TO THE INTERNETS SUCCESS "THE CHAMPION/THE GATEKEEPER" EARLY ADOPTER
You can see the charm just oozing out of this guy! If you have a new technology find this guy in an mid-large sized company, he is who your looking for.
Wesley A. Clark - ARPA (now DARPA)
Walked the Idea into the Suits, it Takes a Wesley to approach a Lawrence.
THE CASH - THE EARLY ADOPTER
Funded - ARPAnet
Lawrence Roberts - ARPA (Now Darpa)
The foundation of the internet is now laid and working:
ENTER INNOVATORS
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau
Proposed in March 1989 Hypertext Transfer Protocol at CERN
December 25, 1990 Implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Client and Server via the internet.
Tim Berners-Lee Robert Cailliau
in 2004 "Sir" Timothy John Berners-Lee, in 2004 still just Robert Cailliau (they must have run out of swords)
There are lots of innovations and early adopters from this point forward, but the end of the real innovation stops here. All the applications, windows, video, chat currently in 2011 are all obvious and not really technology, just technical improvements.
Even the extensions into hollographic imaging, voice, video, and data are obvious and have been discussed and written about for ages. The above group have done most of the heavy lifting, and the future is laid out clearly. Just a matter of timing for every application that you can think of, adoption rate is a different matter, and time is what will take for everything under the sun to be adopted.
Paul Baran (1960). "Reliable Digital Communications Systems Using Unreliable Network Repeater Nodes". RAND Corporation papers, document P-1995. http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1995.html.
Leonard Kleinrock, Farouk Kamoun: Hierarchical Routing for Large Networks; Performance Evaluation and Optimization.
THE INNOVATORS - The Scientists
The "Inventor" first to publish
Paul Baran
in 1960 Invented Packing Switching networks or "the internet"
Who was laughed out of AT&T for not understanding how voice telecommunications work. Textbook case of selling or introducing to late majority adopters, or ludites.
1961/1962 - mathmatical theory of packet networks - MIT
Queing Theory led to packet switching concepts or "the internet"
Leonard Kleinrock
12 years later The fundamental building blocks/concept/heart/ of the Internet - Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol developed and introduced in 1972. by:
Robert Elliot Kahn and Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf - in 1982 also came up with email, and offered the first commercially available email service via MCI.
1977 The Grad Student working with Leonard Kleinrock who did all the work on Hierarchical Routing
Farouk Kamoun
THE KEY TO THE INTERNETS SUCCESS "THE CHAMPION/THE GATEKEEPER" EARLY ADOPTER
You can see the charm just oozing out of this guy! If you have a new technology find this guy in an mid-large sized company, he is who your looking for.
Wesley A. Clark - ARPA (now DARPA)
Walked the Idea into the Suits, it Takes a Wesley to approach a Lawrence.
THE CASH - THE EARLY ADOPTER
Funded - ARPAnet
Lawrence Roberts - ARPA (Now Darpa)
The foundation of the internet is now laid and working:
ENTER INNOVATORS
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau
Proposed in March 1989 Hypertext Transfer Protocol at CERN
December 25, 1990 Implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Client and Server via the internet.
Tim Berners-Lee Robert Cailliau
in 2004 "Sir" Timothy John Berners-Lee, in 2004 still just Robert Cailliau (they must have run out of swords)
There are lots of innovations and early adopters from this point forward, but the end of the real innovation stops here. All the applications, windows, video, chat currently in 2011 are all obvious and not really technology, just technical improvements.
Even the extensions into hollographic imaging, voice, video, and data are obvious and have been discussed and written about for ages. The above group have done most of the heavy lifting, and the future is laid out clearly. Just a matter of timing for every application that you can think of, adoption rate is a different matter, and time is what will take for everything under the sun to be adopted.
Paul Baran (1960). "Reliable Digital Communications Systems Using Unreliable Network Repeater Nodes". RAND Corporation papers, document P-1995. http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1995.html.
Leonard Kleinrock, Farouk Kamoun: Hierarchical Routing for Large Networks; Performance Evaluation and Optimization.
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